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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Kinda, but also not really. Any major tech player that has billions to lose will make a show of respecting robots.txt when presenting that information to third parties, lest they be exposed by basic journalism.

    However, they also have separate networks in R&D that sweep the net all the time and do not care about such restrictions. It’s theatre.

    And they’re still happy to punish people that have the gall to publicly decline their crawlers. Basically they can eat their cake and have it too.




  • Because the tech industry hasn’t had a real hit of it’s favorite poison “private equity” in too long.

    The industry has played the same playbook since at least 2006. Likely before, but that’s when I personally stated seeing it. My take is that they got addicted to the dotcom bubble and decided they can and should recreate the magic evey 3-5 years or so.

    This time it’s AI, last it was crypto, and we’ve had web 2.0, 3.0, and a few others I’m likely missing.

    But yeah, it’s sold like a panacea every time, when really it’s revolutionary for like a handful of tasks.
















  • Worse - easy way to set the settings then gaslight the user to say they asked for it that way.

    How much you wanna bet that it makes those changes in a way that is generally indistinguishable from as if it was done by the user’s own credentials? (Except save perhaps in recall’s own logs)